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Life service sector in Shanghai has achieved substantial growth.
--Beauty and hairdressing: Emphasizing on brands and chain operation, a number of chain brands with unique taste of fashion are holding an increasingly larger market share. In the meantime, many enterprises armed with standard volatilizing products and powerful capacities have set up communities in the mode of chain operation, forming a life service network.
--Bathing: Currently, there are more than 300 composite or sauna bathing operators and about 2,000 public bathing places in Shanghai. Contributing annual sales of over 2 billion yuan, it is becoming an increasingly important sector in life service. Main changes in the sector are reflected through functional extension into leisure, health care and recreation. Traditional service of bathing, back massage and foot care contribute less than 50% in the sales revenue.
--Laundry: Covering key target groups such as hotels and community residents; the sector is developing very fast. In some emerging communities, laundry has become one of the basic service items. Currently, there are about 7,000 branches across the city, forming a market size above 900 million yuan. The sector is expected to accelerate its development in the coming years.
--Repair & maintenance: The sector has sales revenue of 3 billion yuan. Notably, autorepair and its extended services, such as car decoration and maintenance are taking an increasingly larger market share in the sector.
--Life service-lease: With sales revenue of 2 billion yuan, the sector is showing promising space of development. It covers lease services of automobiles, audio/video products, printed products and goods for children and computers.
--Photography and related service: With sales revenue of approximately 2 billion yuan, the sector provides services for professional photographer, wedding photographing and wedding ceremony as well as film developing/printing, coping and typewriting. Currently, the sector is improving its expertise, upgrading its products and extending into basic community services.
--Life service-intermediate service: Mainly consisting of intermediate service for housekeeping, babysitters’house rental, the sector features scattered small-scale operation.